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I read with interest the hard-hitting reply from Barry Hyman (É«ºÐÖ±²¥S, March 7) to Geoffrey Alderman's commentary on the disputes surrounding the death of Rabbi Hugo Gryn. Mr Hyman's remark that Professor Alderman was allowed by The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S "to abuse his position in education", was uncalled for. The É«ºÐÖ±²¥S is a lay weekly with a legitimate academic interest in confessional disputes within British religious communities. Professor Alderman is a leading historian of Anglo-Jewry who, as I understand it, was invited to submit the article in question.

I write as a non-theist and as one of his former research students. Through argument - not via the man - is the better way to debate.

Kevin Moloney

Watcombe Road, Bournemouth, Dorset